![]() There she’s greeted by a girl wearing a wolf mask, who introduces her to six other kids about her age. One day while home from school, Kokoro’s bedroom mirror begins to glow and she’s transported to a castle, perched on a rock mound in the middle of the ocean. Kokoro eventually stops going to school altogether and her mother, unaware of the full extent of the problem, encourages her to either go back to school or pursue opportunities at an alternate school, neither choice particularly appealing. The story centers around high school student Kokoro, who is being mercilessly harassed by a group of girls at her school. Running for two days in North American theaters starting Wednesday, June 21 (tickets now on sale here), GKIDS’ Lonely Castle in the Mirror, from A-1 Pictures, is based on a 2017 novel by Mizuki Tsujimura. ![]() ![]() In 1985, iconic filmmaker John Hughes posed an interesting challenge to the entertainment industry with the release of his film The Breakfast Club: Un-fluff teen drama stories to portray realistic kids talking about ugly issues, with no filter? The coming-of-age film showed five high schoolers from all walks of life - rich, poor, abused, ignored, popular, and bullied - coming together in an unlikely twist of fate, bonded by their shared traumas and unwillingness to accept life’s punches lying down.Īnd, nearly 40 years later, director Keiichi Hara wants to offer a similar catharsis to Japanese students at a time when the country’s school bullying cases and child suicide rates have reached an all-time high. ![]()
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